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Hiragana

Kanji represents blocks of meaning (nouns, stems of adjectives and verbs) and hiragana expresses the grammatical relationship between them (endings of adjectives and verbs, particles).

Hiragana Audio

Learn how to pronounce the sounds.

Hiragana Lessons

Learn how to write hiragana. 

Let's Learn Hiragana with Japanese Culture

Learn how to write a word relating to Japanese culture and society in hiragana, and its history.

Learning Hiragana

If you are new to Japanese, I recommend you learn hiragana first.

Kids Nifty

The Japanese site that allows you to download free hiragana worksheets.

Hiragana Steps

Hiragana is a rounded, curly script which was created by modifying a small number of Chinese characters Hiragana in general appears with the combination of Kanji, which represent the core of many words, in normal writing.

How to write Japanese hiragana

Interactive Flash presentations show visitors how to write hiragana.

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